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A spiff, or spiv, is slang for an immediate bonus for a sale. Typically, spiffs are paid, either by a manufacturer or employer, directly to a salesperson for selling a specific product. It is sometimes given as SPIF or SPIFF, a backronym, with invented words to fit the letters, but these are not the origin (see below).
an amount of money paid by an employer or the manufacturer of a product to a sales person for selling a particular product: The company says it doesn't pay spiffs because the product is so good, they don't have to pay salespeople.
The meaning of SPIFF is spruce —usually used with up. How to use spiff in a sentence. titivate, spruce up, smarten up, or spiff up?
n. Attractiveness or charm in appearance, dress, or manners: "He may need more than spiff to get him through the bad patches ahead" (James Wolcott). [Possibly from dialectal spiff, well-dressed.] American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition.
Originally from textile retailing, a percentage given for selling off surplus or out-of-fashion stock, of which the sales person could offer part as a discount to a customer. (countable, colloquial, Jamaica) A hand-rolled marijuana cigarette; a joint.
Spiff definition: to make spiffy (usually followed by up). See examples of SPIFF used in a sentence.
Definition of spiff verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
